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SubjectRe: perf: perf_fuzzer triggers instant reboot
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Cong Wang wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
>
>> > Now that just might mean the patch pushed the code around enough so my
>> > test doesn't trigger, but there is hope that maybe this fixes things.
>>
>> I read this as it fixes your crash as well?
>
> It makes a testcase I have stop triggering an instant reboot, but there
> have been various attempts to fix similar problems over the past few
> months and so far the general family of lockups/reboots still remains.
>
> I'll have to start fuzzing with 3.17-rc7 and see if things are better now,
> but it can take days to trigger this class of bugs.

Great! Thanks for testing!

>
>> Sure, as I said in the changelog, it is a soft lockup which was triggered on
>> dozens of machines here, it is actually pretty straightforward:
>
> so you managed to trigger it with the perf utility?


Yes, it should be some job in our data center running perf.

> Do you have the exact command line that triggered it?
>

No, I didn't check /proc/<pid>/cmdline when I was debugging this.
What's more important, it was triggered by some job in data center,
hard to reproduce manually.

Hope this helps.


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